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[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
Actually, I missed this post directed to me.

So I apologize, you did try to help. I only saw the other posts.

My battery life is actually sorting itself out, the full wipe isn't always necessary. I've flashed a million times so I'm not new, but I'm still not a pro =p
[EVO 4G General] IOInterrupt:
Say no more. Let's move on and all talk about what we're going to do with the soon to come full HDMI mirroring!
[EVO 4G General] Rem3Dy:
Where in my post that you just quoted does it say you MUST wipe your phone every time?
[EVO 4G General] Rem3Dy:
Yeah I'm excited for the full HDMI! Using emulators with the wiimote on your TV!
[EVO 4G General] Rem3Dy:
Its cool man. It was just frustrating :( I myself do not full wipe unless I notice a problem. It is just a way to insure that everything goes smoothly, or to help eliminate a problem.
[EVO 4G General] IOInterrupt:
Now that's a good reason to go out and get a cable! I forgot I had the wiikb installed from way back to use with the Playstation emulator.
[EVO 4G General] IOInterrupt:
Glad yours has worked itself out. For some odd reason I've been stuck at 61% charging on my phone for the last 45 minutes. Time to start tinkering.
[EVO 4G General] JOEOZUNA4U:
where does it say its optional?

i was replying to this post then you jumped on my case... anyways, a full wipe is not needed just because its a new kernel... now if you want to keep crying be my guest.... now lets get back to topic :)
[EVO 4G General] Rem3Dy:
That is something I haven't heard of. Does a reboot solve it?
[EVO 4G General] Rem3Dy:
This is why kids need to stay in school.
[EVO 4G General] JOEOZUNA4U:
im sure you know best!! haha ok ok lets get back to topic
[EVO 4G General] IOInterrupt:
Interestingly enough, it showed something I did not expect. I rebooted the phone and it said the battery was at 17%. It shows that it is charging, but apparently it's not. The only thing I changed after flashing to nightly 5 was to turn on the battery percentage tweak in the status bar and SMS splitting.
[EVO 4G General] mkeena0305:
Shhhhhh. .... Hdmi is evil
[EVO 4G General] Rem3Dy:
Hold on a sec. Ill try to replicate the problem. It could be a bug in the new status bar. Under settings what does it say your battery percentage is?
[EVO 4G General] unit713:
I went from Nightly 3 to Nightly 5 with no problems so far, yet I still have that "backlight not coming on" issue when I turn the screen on periodically. I'll try a full wipe and see if that helps.
[EVO 4G General] IOInterrupt:
It froze up on me after rebooting as well, so I had to yank the battery. Just booted back up and it was at 19% which matched the battery status. It has gone up 1% since then. I'll continue to monitor it. I did notice that the Status Bar is using more CPU than I would expect within SystemPanel with an average consumption of 3%.
[EVO 4G General] Rem3Dy:
No I'm not claming to know best or always be right about something but it is very clear you either didn't correctly comprehend my post, took it out of context, or rushed your reply before thoroughly reading. So chill out and have a good day.
[EVO 4G General] Rem3Dy:
So far it is showing a continued charge with the status bar percentage enabled. You could also try wiping the battery stats in recovery. I hope for your sake this isn't signs that the usb connector on your phone is going bad. They are known to fail on the EVO.
[EVO 4G General] JOEOZUNA4U:
like i said i was replying to this post not to you but YOU jumped on my case.. anyways lets be adults and move on, it was all a misunderstanding
[EVO 4G General] IOInterrupt:
I don't see any real issues other than the status bar tweak uses 3% or more of CPU at all times. When I disable the battery percentage tweak, the status bar CPU usage drops to 0.5% or so.

It seems to be charging OK now, so there must have just been some odd hiccup on my system. I am going to do some comparisons on CPU usages with and without the battery percentage tweak though. I do like the battery percentage, but not at a cost of 3% of my CPU usage.
[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
Hmm, possibly could explain the slight drop in battery life for me then.

I had no problems with a themed RC1 with battery % in it.. but this apparently uses more cpu
[EVO 4G General] Rem3Dy:
It is an interesting find that's for sure. Keep us updated.
[EVO 4G General] JOEOZUNA4U:
that reminds me of the winmo days.. people had to change the 1% to 10% because of the CPU usage
[EVO 4G General] IOInterrupt:
Ok, this is a VERY short test, but this is what I am noticing just by eyeballing.

Without battery percentage tweak: CPU usage 5-9% while in SystemPanel

With battery percentage tweak: CPU usage 14-23% while in SystemPanel.

I will continue to try and get averages for both over an hour, but I need to first get my phone charged up, so I can leave the screen on for an extended amount of time and keep it from locking. However, it does seem that the battery percentage tweak could use some code rewrites for optimization.

I've never checked the usage of other battery percentage mods, so I do not know how it compares to others, but this one seems to be quite high.
[EVO 4G General] ibcenu:
My battery life seems less on 5 as well, and I did do a full wipe -

Dude, try another cable, or another computer

Can I give you this reference... after reading several of your posts... you need this

http://www.google.com/products/cata...ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CD0Q8wIwAg#ps-sellers
[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
Wow, that is high. I'm better off using the themed rc1 haha
[EVO 4G General] JOEOZUNA4U:
or add the battery% on your lock screen
[EVO 4G General] PinkoCommie:
You're my new effin' hero. Thanks, man! I like keeping things as simple as possible while still being able to accomplish what I need to accomplish. Running Handcent just for splitting was overkill. Now, I have stock messaging with split!

Goes to show... you can do anything you want when you put your Polish mind to it ;)
[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
I do, I prefer to have it on my battery icon as well. Thay may still optimize it tho.
[EVO 4G General] IOInterrupt:
I've been using handcent for the same reason. Does anyone know if the stock messaging app will split group messages and store each person's message/response with their normal texts? Rather than having that mass text become it's own separate text thread? I don't know if that makes any sense to anyone, but I don't know how to describe it. I recall that handcent had an option for that.
[EVO 4G General] JOEOZUNA4U:
yeah its always better.. oh well, we just have to work with what we have
[EVO 4G General] JOEOZUNA4U:
it doesnt do that but maybe you can post a request on mwielgosz's thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=962405
[EVO 4G General] timothydoanpham:
so it seems my post caused quite a stir on here sorry about that. me personally i've always wiped when it came to a new kernel just to be safe. yes i know it is not required but to prevent any potential mishap or anything remotely like it i do a full wipe. YES it is a hassle and a pain everytime a kernel change but that's how i've always been able to have the most optimal experience. so my post of "yes wipe whenever there's a kernel change" is just my own experience and opinion.
[EVO 4G General] chandlerw88:
Battery life could be a result of the kernel change. I'm sure a couple days and it'll get better. No ransom reboots as of yet. This might be my daily til the final unless something crucial gets implemented.
[EVO 4G General] scoobdude:
Anyone else going into 1x when sending a text? I am right on the Mexican border right now and flashed 5 over 4 on the way down. Just wanted to see if maybe the network was suspect or if it might be the Rom.
[EVO 4G General] chandlerw88:
And is it me only but doesn't data seem faster.. my speed test last night were terrible. Prolly in the 600kbps download range but with this build I'm averaging about 900.. still terrible ping and uploads though
[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
I was thinking the same thing..

In my experience... it takes a little time to settle in. I hope so, because the battery on RC1 was excellent for me.

I have never done a full wipe for a kernel change, not even on a sense rom. That doesn't mean that it's the way to go for everyone else tho.

Every evo has it's own personality, I find it best to make sure to have a Nand... then just try it with a wipe of Cache/Dalvik... you'll likely know if you have to do a full wipe after that.

Some people just like to do a full wipe to make sure they get a clean install, not a thing wrong with that... I think you just have to experiment yourself IMO.
[EVO 4G General] Rem3Dy:
If you would have read all the posts you would be apologizing also.
[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
That's always been the norm. I'm not sure, but I think it's the same way on sense as well, just that sense roms don't show 1x so you don't see the change?
[EVO 4G General] brofist:
What did you expect of terra->satellite connections? Its like asking for transparency in legal documents. v:
[EVO 4G General] mdubs:
Rem3Dy, I just wanted to thank you for calling yourself out and apologizing.

There are so very few people on this forum and life in general that are willing to do this.

Props to you sir.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
[EVO 4G General] chandlerw88:
Yeah definitely. To each there own. I personally don't mind full wipes because of the ease of getting everything back now that Google backup on cm7 works the way it does. Just put it on wifi and all my apps are back in 5 minutes and all I have to do is just put my Widgets the way they like. I also feel like caulkins format all contributed to the cleanliness I'm getting from this build. But definitely each phone is different.
[EVO 4G General] chandlerw88:
Yeah they seem extremely low though seeing how my downloads are what they are. I'm not trippin though because Im getting better downloads then I have been the past couple of weeks
[EVO 4G General] krazyflipj:
Anyone see this?

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/22/google-disables-contact-sync-in-facebook-for-android-only-nexus/

If CM Team updates to 2.3.3, I wonder if this would apply to us.
[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
Yea, that's hella gay.
[EVO 4G General] :
after struggling with 3g speeds on previous cm7s, I flashed nightly 5 and the download almost doubled. upload would unfortunately be in the double digits in kbps. ping pretty bad too. flashed stock sense and everything improved. sad :(
[EVO 4G General] chandlerw88:
Yeah that's gonna piss some people off. I'm not really tripping though because half my Facebook contacts don't even sync correctly anyway. And I only sync with existing contacts because I don't want all those names I wont use in my phone book
[EVO 4G General] chandlerw88:
What are you using to test I'm using speed.net but maybe its just inaccurate but im in the same boat
[EVO 4G General] :
im using speedtest.net also. even if the speedtest app is off (which i don't think it is), i have experienced faster market download speeds, web download speeds, with sense. on cm the os is loading and rendering things very nicely, but there is noticeable lag with anything data related (web pages take forever to load or time out, market stalls or crawls, xda app takes forever to open a thread).
[EVO 4G General] IOInterrupt:
Ok, while gone at lunch I ran a test to compare CPU usage of the battery percentage tweak vs the no battery percentage. Both test were done under the following conditions.

Environment

Phone State: Reboot to clear SystemPanel average CPU consumption

Power: Plugged into USB

Screen Timeout: 30 minutes

Screen Mode: Stay awake while charging

Average CPU Consumption of the Status Bar over 15 minutes

Without Tweak: 0.7%

With Tweak: 3.9% (Average of two tests)

If battery life is a issue for you, then I would suggest that you disable the battery percentage tweak until it is resolved. I will do some more tests to verify the CPU usage I got is not abnormal.
[EVO 4G General] matt2053:
Yes this is the way it is supposed to work.
[EVO 4G General] brofist:
If we get kernel bumped to this latest version, it will in fact apply to us.

Which is good, because then Facebook will be forced to use the Contacts API, effectively making it so we can have control of the contact data (what a shocker!).

I'm all for bowing down to our supreme read/write contact overlords.
[EVO 4G General] chandlerw88:
Weak sauce. I haven't had sense in awhile to be able to noticed. I just figured it was the network in general
[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
Thank you for doing these tests... people like myself are very interested in the information you discover.

That seems like an abnormally high amount for just a battery % tweak... and definitely could explain the hit on my battery.

On another note.. I seem to have some lag when turning the screen on... I don't remember it being there on earlier builds before the setcpu style kernel tweaks were implemented... I haven't messed with any of those settings tho, straight default. Anyone else notice this?
[EVO 4G General] :
if you have time, id love to see your sense results (nandroid your cm so you can restore maybe?) - it does seem like sprint upload is worthless most of the time regardless of rom, and their 3g is awful. although im in what im sure is a completely saturated area and probably overloaded tower (west of downtown chicago near wicker park).
[EVO 4G General] IOInterrupt:
I've noticed this intermittently, but haven't paid a lot of attention to it. I have the ondemand gov on with it set to scale from 245 - 966 (or something similar).
[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
That's cool. It's not a big deal... the battery life is tho. I'll give it a day or 2 then decide if I wanna nand back to rc1.
[EVO 4G General] RichTJ99:
Can someone explain the whole Wimote thing? I have a Wi, I have an EVO, whats the benefit of Wimote?
[EVO 4G General] krazyflipj:
To use your wimote for playing emulators
[EVO 4G General] RichTJ99:
So if you have MAME or SNES, then you can use a Wii mote to control the game? Isnt that hard to do with a 4.3" screen? I think I am envisioning this wrong as that doesnt make sense to me.

Though with full HDMI out, that might be kind of cool too.
[EVO 4G General] IOInterrupt:
I retested and got numbers that were closer to my initial estimates. Two more tests with the battery tweak confirmed the first test was abnormal. This time I got 3.7% and 4.1% CPU usage from the battery percentage tweak. I am now doing a test with the phone unplugged to see if there is much of a difference. I suspect it could be an issue with the charging animations.

Also, I updated my original post to reflect these new numbers so it won't strike fear in people, lol.
[EVO 4G General] Shidell:
Has the EVO team made any progress on GPS since the RC?

Any idea even what's causing the difficulties?
[EVO 4G General] Rem3Dy:
I believe this has been an issue with this kernel in combination with certain LCD panels. I remember reading something about it here on xda. It has been happening since they started using the .37 kernel.
[EVO 4G General] krazyflipj:
That is correct. Not that bad if you have your Evo on the kickstand.
[EVO 4G General] Rem3Dy:
Using the wiimote with the 4.3 inch screen is far easier than using overplayed buttons on the screen itself. Using wiimote with HDMI out is even better.
[EVO 4G General] sarahlegs:
You should be!! You contributed to Cyanogenmod, AOSP and open source software development itself in a way that will benefit thousands of people. Most of these people will happily text away from now on, completely oblivious to the fact that someone decided to make sure their long SMS texts got through to people without a third-party app in response to a community request.

I looked at the script in gerrit for fun and saw your comments. The one on line 111 is priceless:

// To split or not to split, that is THE question!

I love you guys!!! /shedatear
[EVO 4G General] chandlerw88:
Yeah no prob...Im in Houston. Ill do it now and post in a sec
[EVO 4G General] mikeyfg:
Anyone know if the front cam is fixed yet? It was sooo dark in theprevious releases...
[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
Just curious

Did you try checking the usage with the battery % on and clock off? That's how mine is set up since I have a BW widget for time... first time ever turning it off.

But now I realize I want to leave the time on along with the battery % so I can see the time while using applications... just wondering if it changes the usage at all.
[EVO 4G General] IOInterrupt:
I actually just ran two tests with the battery percentage tweak on (with clock) while on battery. It indicates that there is no real issue with it as the CPU usage levels were a moot point at 0.3%. The only real CPU usage comes when it is plugged in and the charging meter is being animated.
[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
Oh ok, that's good news then.

That means it is likely just a settling period for my battery.

It's not a major drain or anything.. just enough to notice. Nice going back and forth on this subject with you ;)
[EVO 4G General] matt2053:
Wait..... you know you just use the hard buttons, right? That look like an old NES controller? Not the laser pointer motion sensor thing. Right?
[EVO 4G General] vishious89:
SMS not working!

hi, new to the site guys, love it already though.

I have CM7-Rc1 flashed on my htc evo....and for the first few days, everything worked fine...had to do the gps fix..but worked fine after that....

I've been using handcent so that messages can be split at 160....and just yesterday, messages are taking forever to send, where they used to take 3 seconds....and even when they do, my recipients aren't getting them on time.

In addition, i'm not receiving texts either.(biggest problem) I only receive all the texts i've missed when i'm making a phone call and the phone is connected. Then i get a bunch of texts from throughout the day. In addition, I dunno if this is relevant, but sometimes it takes me a while to get connected to sprint...it just says "dialing" and then connects 15 sec later and stops ringing..

I'm missing too many text messages, anybody have this problem or know how to fix?? Thanks a million
[EVO 4G General] IOInterrupt:
I had a similar problem once before with texts. One thing that might help is to flash a sense based rom. Update your PRL and profile from the sense rom and then nandroid restore your CM7 ROM.

Also, which radio and PRI versions are you using? This was an issue at one point for me in CM6.
[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
The normal fix to mms issues would be to make a Backup of your current rom, then flash a sense based rom. Make sure the text messages are working correctly on that rom then restore your backup.

You can try that, but if it doesn't work...sadly.. I'd give it a full clean wipe and start over.
[EVO 4G General] netwokz:
I hate to be this guy, but do we still need to flash gapps after every nightly? or has that been resolved? This thread moves so fast, and I'm running RC1.
[EVO 4G General] m4rk0358:
I didn't flash gapps this morning and everything is fine. Went from nightly 1 to 5.
[EVO 4G General] vishious89:
hey, thanks for the quick reply!

I'm flashing the sense rom right now...but I am using the latest radio i found on cyanogenwiki.... 2.15.00.11.19
[EVO 4G General] mwielgosz:
This made me literally LOL
[EVO 4G General] netwokz:
Cool, thanks for the speedy reply.
[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
I wasn't aware that we ever had to flash gapps after every nightly?

But no, if you aren't doing a full wipe, shouldn't have to re-flash gapps.
[EVO 4G General] IOInterrupt:
What about your PRI version? Did you flash the combo Radio, PRI, and WiMax combo? I'm just curious, because I'd like to help if I can. When I had a problem like this, it drove me up the wall.

Just be sure to update your PRL and profile after you get back into Sense. Especially if you didn't do so after updating your radio.
[EVO 4G General] vishious89:
my PRI version 1.90_003. PRL version is 60675.

Flashed back to my sense rom, and i'm updating my profile...but its still on the screen that says "network is preparing your services"...waiting for it to go through.
[EVO 4G General] netwokz:
I think it was a problem with the WiMAX Ginggerbread nightlys. but I couldn't remember if it was those nightlys or these regular ones.
[EVO 4G General] chandlerw88:
yeah average of 3 test

download 855, but did get 1006 on the second which is an all time high for like the past month and a half

upload 466 wich is a little over 3x more than my cm7 average

and ping is 326 which is a little over 3x more than cm 7

so really the only thing that was worst was my download using the sense rom. going back to cm7 though
[EVO 4G General] :
thanks for the info. i still think there are serious issues with sprint 3g data speeds on cm that i hope the devs are aware of or will investigate. might not be obvious where coverage is good, but im definitely feeling it in this solid brick jungle of a city :)
[EVO 4G General] m4rk0358:
Yeah I agree and I'm just down the road from you (Logan Square).
[EVO 4G General] :
cool, do you have wimax coverage indoors there? not here, even though it says so on the map. can't even get it at street level unless i drive a few blocks. 3rd floor window ledge does work for a fair connection.
[EVO 4G General] vishious89:
so i flashed back to sense rom, yes texts are coming in better than they were on CM7-Rc1.....but still a bit delayed maybe...as in i got 2 or 3 texts at once....but better than CM7.....

my PRI version 1.90_003. PRL version is 60675.

tried to update my PRL...it says that "no PRL update found"

trying to update my profile....and it's still stuck on "The network is preparing your services" with the loading circle screen.

i've been waiting about 5 minutes...any advice on what to do here?
[EVO 4G General] m4rk0358:
Yeah my wimax coverage is actually pretty solid indoors. 3G sucks though.
[EVO 4G General] :
that's the latest prl. profile could be already up to date. some people reported bad battery life with pri and nv 1.90.X so they flashed 1.77.X - I am personally on the .77s and can't tell a difference from .90s
[EVO 4G General] IOInterrupt:
It's been a while since I updated my profile and I don't recall how long it normally takes. You may just need to reboot the phone and try again. I don't think cache/Dalvik would have any affect on updating the profile, but you could try to clear them.
[EVO 4G General] :
it just took me about 30 seconds to update profile on 3g.
[EVO 4G General] matt2053:
Why mess with backing up, flashing sense, updating, and restoring your backup, just to update PRI, when we have this available?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=715485

Just curious if there is a benefit to doing it OTA.
[EVO 4G General] IOInterrupt:
He was trying to update his PRL and profile which can only be done in Sense.
[EVO 4G General] vishious89:
SMS not working!

ok so i finally got my profile to update after pulling battery and restarted....

nandroid restored to my CM7-Rc1 rom...

and having the same problem again....sending sms seems to be going....but replies are not coming in. again, just caled my voicemail...and while in call with my voicemail...text messages come streaming in....

any other suggestions? or is fully wipe and reflash necessary?

and if so, i'd like some input on whether i should flash cm7-rc1 or flash the latest nightly build. thanks!
[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
He was also trying to correct and issue with not receiving text messages.
[EVO 4G General] matt2053:
Sorry I misread. I thought it said PRI.
[EVO 4G General] :
I would recommend nightly #5 over rc1 but thats just because the 3g speeds were better for me on #5.
[EVO 4G General] vishious89:
was gps stable on nightly 5?
[EVO 4G General] m4rk0358:
It is for me.